Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-09-30
KING KALAKAUA.
Leaving His Palace without Permission,
He Is Brought Back Is q Prisoner By
His Minister OF Foreign Relations.

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| WAIALUA, HAWAIIAN IsLANDs,)
August 22, 1887.
To tn. Enron OF rax Trnrs.-
King Kalakaua, not being satisfied
with his late confinement to his Royal
Palace inclosurs, and not being dis.
posed to allow his late Foreign Min.
listers to absolutely have their own
way in the coming elections, came to
tho conclusion he would take leave
of absence without asking permission
from his Ministerial dictators. He
lett his Palace on the 9th of Angus,
with the supposed intention of making
an electioneering tour from island to
island in order to defeat the late Con.
stitution, and at the same time instruct
his native subjects in the latest style
adopted by his foreign subjects on
making constitutions and military
movements. He only succeeded in
reaching the town Of Lohina, once
noted as a rendezvous for our Pacific
whaling aeet; but now a second.rate
sugar district Of the island of Maui.
The Cabinet Ministers finding out his
intention, dispatched Mr.. Godfrey
Brown, now Minister of Foreign At.
fairs, by fast steamer to bring him
back to the capital. His Majesty ar,
rived in Honolulu August 9, rather
docile and degraded, in charge of his
Anglo-Sax on superior. He will now
have ample time to enjoy the society
of his noted Queen and inspect those
costly presents given her by those
crazy Bostonians. 1t is understood
he will be allowed the freedom of the
Palace yard and now and then be al
lowed to take a run in the suburbs of
the city until the election takes place,
which is ordered for the 18th of Sep
TENDER, for the purpose of choosing
Mobiles and Representatives to ratify
or reject our present Constitution.
If the old plantation party should
carry the election, it is generally un
derstood that the present Cabinet will
offer Pearl river harbor to the United
States for a naval station, in compen-
sation for a treaty now existing be
tween the two nations. At present
the foreign population here are near
ly equally divided, one party for the
new Constitution, the other bitterly
against it. Neither party of foreign,
ers desires the Constitution of 1864.
The natives and half of the foreign.
ers are working to prevent the ratifi-
cation Of the Constitution of July Z,
in order to obtain a new Constitution
that will give them equal rights that
they have not enjoyed since Kane.
hameha the Fifth arbitrarily set aside
a republican Constitution given to the
people of the Islands in 1910 BY
Kameha meha the Third, who offered
in lS48 these Islands to the American
Minister Resident.
The Hawaiian war vessel, or better
known as the Conundrum, fitted out
by the Gibson government and armed
with two Calling guns and three doz.
en- rusty sabres, and manned with
mixed crew of thieves, house breakers
and paupers, Is ordered home and
shortly expected to arrive with Minis
ter Bush and suite from the Samoan
Islands. If those Islands have been
annexed according to instructions, or
conveyed here on a Hawaiian war
vessel, then there will be added to
this group nearly 100000 moro Ka-
nakas to supply the Hawaiian planters
with cheap, servile labor that has
made them rich, opulent, and in many
eases tyrannical; all made from treaty
now in existence that has driven the
American field-laborer wholly from
these shores. If our Conundrum
safely returns, it may be in order to
re6t her SO as to convey = few sp-ci-
mems Of Hawaiisn Cinnamon to Am.
erica to be presented to your Eastern
statesmen to ornament their museums
and supply the lost connecting link
between the orang-cutang and mod.
ern civilization.
Yours Respectfully,